Sunday School

Sometimes people don’t even know how inconsistent their rage is, even with “non problems”. For example, Christian attitudes towards stem cell research and IVF treatment.

Embryonic stem cells have the ability to become stem cells that can be of great value to medical researchers in developing cures with potential for muscle or nerve regrowth…[Read more]

It’s interesting how decades ago, most Christian churches had no problem with abortion and the NRA supported gun control (as something obvious). Somehow over time evangelical nut jobs became influential in politics and many Americans have suffered ever since with hysterical ranting over issues that only become issues when some fundamentalist lu…[Read more]

I am seriously thinking about relocating to the US. My American friends (all atheists) in Ireland are trying to talk me out of it 🙂 “Dude, are you crazy”!

It might be hard for all you all living in liberal, secular areas to imagine how bad it has gotten in some places the last few years. I keep to myself now, trapped financially, but hoping to retire soon. Even if one’s country is shite right now, nobody likes to have it trashed. Especially if you are stereo-typed to death. I do think the US is…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

Davis, I am proud to be an American and our Bush beer is the best beer in the world. Jesus is gonna come back and open a can of whip-ass on you, you devil worshiper. Euro-pussies can keep there beer over their, that shit is black as hell. -bubba

I unreservedly apologise for the offence I have caused. These last 12 hours have given…[Read more]

On being offended….

Hitchens brother makes a very good case.

You could start here Robert. When I lived in London I once flew home for a long weekend to a town  in West Cork with a friend of mine in early May. He is born and bred in London so it was a bit of a culture shock for him.  At about 2:00 in the morning he fought his way to the bar as the local traditional musicians played Irish rebel songs in his h…[Read more]

I do love my Guinness beer at the closest approximation of what Americans think an Irish pub must be like,

Davis,

I am proud to be an American and our Bush beer is the best beer in the world. Jesus is gonna come back and open a can of whip-ass on you, you devil worshiper. Euro-pussies can keep there beer over their, that shit is black as hell.

-bubba

Thanks Reg.

Imagine that Davis, ugly Americans getting frustrated for, well, being ugly Americans. Never ceases to amaze me just how ugly we Americans can be when in someone else’s country. And you’re right Davis, at around the fifth slight we get belligerent. I’ve been in groups where we berate this nationality or that nationality but let some…[Read more]

Drawing the line between offensive and crude comments that weren’t necessary is a difficult one. Though I have to say unintended slights are far more forgivable. I think shaming accomplishes little. When you are part of a marginalised group…the endless “harmless” comments that have even a small demeaning or derogatory connotation add up and add…[Read more]

I think this is what happens when narcissists get hold of politics.  What I see in that field is widespread bullying, whether from the Left or Right.

But the new culture of victimhood combines sensitivity to slight with appeal to authority. Those who embrace it see themselves as fighting oppression, and even minor offenses can be worthy of attention and action. Slights, insults, and sometimes even arguments or evidence might further victimize an oppressed group, and authorities must deal with…[Read more]

“We are all for free speech on campus”

– safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions – these aren’t necessarily as batty and laughable as they can be made out.  I had a conversation with a trans woman from one of these West-coast colleges on Facebook about a year ago, and she seemed like a reasonable person and made some reasonable points.  B…[Read more]

After a few years of combat he was finally hit and was put on morphine and/or other drugs from then on, so we never really talked much. I don’t think he wanted to remember any of it, he hated the army.

_Robert_ wrote:

“meat chopper”

I can’t imagine having to deal with that.  Do you think he wanted to “give back”, or was a stickler for morality?

My father’s platoon regularly used anti-aircraft weaponry to defend themselves against all-night human-wave charges. He used the term “meat chopper”.  He came home an atheist.

Thanks, Reg!

“The moral wounds of soldiers who kill during wartime.”

– I would have thought this is a very hard condition to treat.  The dead would have to be brought back to life, and that is impossible.

There is an ex-gangster in Leeds called Hanif Mohammed who spent 10 years in jail for killing someone.  Now he devotes his life to helping young kids s…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!!
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

– Anne Lamott.